Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie received the unexpected Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and entered a dangerous passage beneath a spiritual spring. Meanwhile, the Demon Venerable investigated Zhang Tie’s whereabouts, then destroyed his soul blood after it vanished.

• The Five-Colored Fruit produced the golden, earth-attributed Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel for Zhang Tie instead of the flying sword he had wanted, and the Myriad Spirits List ranked it fiftieth.
• Zhang Tie returned to the spiritual spring, released the mindless young sect master, and left him behind.
• Zhang Tie descended into the spring, found a dark opening, summoned his golden armor and enlarged shovel, and rushed inside.
• The Demon Venerable ordered an ape-bodied, wolf-headed Demon Commander to locate Zhang Tie and learned that he had been assigned to guard a Spirit Gold Jade Ore mine for sixty years.
• When Zhang Tie’s soul blood ignited and disappeared, the Demon Venerable decided it was safer to kill him and let the blood turn to nothingness.

Zhang Tie survived the destruction of his soul blood and raced away on the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, hoping to reach the Spirit Realm and find Jin Linglong. Elsewhere, Xiao Hedong fought the bald monk as the battle between the Boundless Sect and the demons escalated.

• Zhang Tie felt a deathly aura, lost one divine sense, and discovered that his Substitute Death Puppet had burned to ash.
• Zhang Tie realized the Demon Venerable had destroyed the soul blood, then hurried off to settle matters in the realm and teleport to the Spirit Realm.
• The bald monk attacked Xiao Hedong with black prayer beads that transformed into skulls and trapped Xiao Hedong’s red iron fan.
• Xiao Hedong summoned a fiery tiger, dragon, and formation disc, using them to burn back the skulls and free his iron fan.
• The bald monk summoned a Ghost King whose cultivation had reached the mid Nascent Soul stage.

Xiao Hedong fought the bald monk and his Ghost King as the Boundless Sect descended into a bloody battle. With his treasures trapped and his spiritual power nearly exhausted, Xiao Hedong abandoned his body and tried to self-destruct his Nascent Soul, but the monk bound and subdued it.

• Xiao Hedong used his blood essence to transform his folding fan into a blazing firewheel and sent it toward the bald monk.
• The Ghost King collided with the firewheel and halted it, while skulls blocked Xiao Hedong's flaming tiger and giant dragon from helping.
• Immortal Cultivators fought across the Boundless Sect as the bald monk sent a black saber toward Xiao Hedong.
• Xiao Hedong abandoned his physical body, teleported behind the bald monk as a Nascent Soul, and began to self-destruct.
• The bald monk burned a black talisman to summon chains that bound Xiao Hedong's Nascent Soul and stopped it from expanding.

Zhang Tie arrived during the Buddha-Demon Sect’s assault on the Boundless Sect and swiftly killed the bald monk and his Ghost King. Xiao Hedong’s Nascent Soul remained restrained as the Buddha-Demon Sect members fled and the Boundless Sect celebrated.

• The bald monk restrained Xiao Hedong’s Nascent Soul with a Void Locking Talisman and prepared to refine him into a corpse puppet.
• Zhang Tie appeared and asked which sects ranked among the Immortal Cultivation World’s top ten.
• Xiao Hedong offered Zhang Tie information and a map in exchange for help, while the bald monk threatened him with the Buddha-Demon Sect.
• Zhang Tie killed the bald monk with a single word, then destroyed the charging Ghost King with azure lightning.
• The Buddha-Demon Sect members fled, and the Boundless Sect members celebrated.

Zhang Tie freed Xiao Hedong, then revealed his Ascension Spirit Talisman and asked the Boundless Sect master to guide him to the realm’s ten great sects. After studying a map of Fengyun Continent, Zhang Tie bound Xiao Hedong and ordered him to move.

• Zhang Tie shattered the chains restraining Xiao Hedong’s Nascent Soul, and Xiao Hedong thanked him before returning to his body.
• Xiao Hedong brought Zhang Tie to the Boundless Sect’s hall, served him spirit tea, and gave him the sect’s stored supply as a gift.
• Zhang Tie showed Xiao Hedong the Ascension Spirit Talisman and asked him to accompany him to the ten great sects.
• Xiao Hedong explained the locations of the great sects and proposed traveling through Four Seas City to reach the Central Continent.
• Zhang Tie examined Xiao Hedong’s map, discovered the continent’s vast size, then bound Xiao Hedong with mana and ordered him to move.

Zhang Tie escorted Xiao Hedong to the City Lord's Mansion in Four Seas City, where a one-eyed monk from the Buddha-Demon Sect attacked them. Zhang Tie broke the monk's weapon and struck him as he tried to flee.

• Zhang Tie transported Xiao Hedong from the sect's reception hall to Four Seas City, and Xiao Hedong led him to the teleportation array.
• A one-eyed monk from the Buddha-Demon Sect confronted Xiao Hedong and accused him of abandoning his sect.
• The monk attacked Xiao Hedong with a Vajra pestle, while Xiao Hedong tried to defend himself and called for the City Lord's Mansion guards.
• Zhang Tie caught the Vajra pestle and snapped it in two, badly wounding the monk through their life-force connection.
• The monk tried to escape, but Zhang Tie appeared in front of him and struck him with a fist.

Zhang Tie killed the one-eyed monk despite City Lord Gu ordering him to stop, then defeated Gu when he attacked. Gu backed down and offered to host Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong, but Zhang Tie refused and headed for the teleportation array.

• Zhang Tie ignored City Lord Gu’s command to stop and killed the one-eyed monk, destroying his Nascent Soul as well.
• City Lord Gu confronted Zhang Tie, and Zhang Tie dismissed his authority while Xiao Hedong tried to explain the fight.
• City Lord Gu sent an azure flying sword at Xiao Hedong, but Zhang Tie shoved Xiao Hedong aside, caught the sword, and snapped it, injuring Gu through their connection.
• City Lord Gu called the killing a misunderstanding and offered to testify for Zhang Tie, then invited him and Xiao Hedong to the city’s main hall.
• Zhang Tie refused the invitation and walked toward the teleportation array, with Xiao Hedong following.

Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong arrived in Taishi City, where Zhang Tie used the Ascension Spirit Talisman to secure an escort to the Taishi Sect. The elderly cultivator agreed to take them to meet the sect master.

• City Lord Gu watched Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong teleport away and decided not to risk provoking Zhang Tie with Four Seas City's city-protecting formation.
• Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong arrived at Taishi City's grand teleportation hall, where Xiao Hedong explained that they needed a token or an escort to reach the Taishi Sect.
• Zhang Tie showed an elderly Nascent Soul cultivator the Ascension Spirit Talisman and released his Void Breaking Realm pressure.
• The elderly cultivator recognized the talisman, agreed to guide Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong to the Taishi Sect, and led them out to meet the sect master.

Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong teleported with the old woman as the Taishi Sect’s elders convened over the arrival of an Upper Realm Nascent Soul cultivator. As the elders debated how to confront him, the newcomer offered to face them all and wagered the Ascension Jade Talisman on the contest.

• The old woman gave Zhang Tie and Xiao Hedong teleportation talismans before activating the array and sending them away.
• The Taishi Sect’s elders gathered after the Taishi Bell rang nine times, and the sect leader announced that a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Upper Realm had arrived.
• The red-haired Eighth Elder urged the sect to seize the newcomer’s treasures by extraordinary means, while the palace-attired woman warned that such deceit could bring the Upper Realm’s wrath.
• The white-haired boy supported testing the newcomer, and an old man suggested the First Elder assess his strength.
• The newcomer spoke from outside the hall and challenged everyone to attack him, promising the Ascension Jade Talisman if anyone could withstand one strike without being defeated.

Zhang Tie arrived at the Taiyi Sect and challenged its leaders to withstand one strike, wagering the Ascension Jade Talisman and his life. He defeated the four Spirit Transformation cultivators with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, leaving the sect’s leadership badly injured and their magic treasures destroyed.

• Zhang Tie entered the council hall with Xiao Hedong and an elderly woman, then offered to settle matters with a single strike against the sect’s cultivators.
• The First Elder accepted Zhang Tie’s challenge and led him and three other Spirit Transformation cultivators to the testing grounds.
• Zhang Tie summoned the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and an azure lightning phantom, then attacked the four elders.
• The shovel’s earth-element binding force immobilized the four cultivators, and its strike shattered their magic treasures and sent them flying into the formation.
• Zhang Tie examined the shovel and realized that it was exceptionally sturdy and could bind opponents, though using it consumed a large amount of his blood qi.

After taking command of the Taishi Sect, Zhang Tie learned that Jin Linglong had ascended to the Upper Realm and challenged the Spirit Transformation cultivators of the nine other sects. At the Ascension Platform, he and the other contestants activated the formations, and Zhang Tie asked the Formation Spirit whether they could choose the contest format.

• After Zhang Tie defeated the Taishi Sect’s four cultivators, they accepted his authority, and the First Elder ordered the sect to obey him.
• Zhang Tie learned that Jin Linglong had defeated ten Core Formation geniuses and ascended to the Upper Realm, then ordered the nine other sects to meet his challenge in one month.
• The sects’ Nascent Soul cultivators gathered at the Ascension Platform, where Zhang Tie prepared to begin the challenge ahead of schedule.
• Zhang Tie and the local participants activated the Ascension Platform with their talismans and essence blood, summoning its Formation Spirit.
• Zhang Tie asked the Formation Spirit whether the contestants could decide the format or had to fight one-on-one.

Zhang Tie challenged ten cultivators to attack him together while he defended with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, but an unexpected black cone pierced his Blood Qi Armor and threatened the back of his head. The Formation Spirit had not yet announced the result, leaving Zhang Tie in immediate danger.

• Zhang Tie proposed facing all ten cultivators at once and winning if their combined attack failed to scratch him.
• The Formation Spirit accepted the challenge, and Zhang Tie and the ten cultivators took their positions.
• At the Formation Spirit's command, Zhang Tie planted the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel as the ten cultivators unleashed their attacks.
• After the attacks subsided, Zhang Tie waited for the Formation Spirit's judgment, but she remained silent.
• A black cone appeared behind Zhang Tie, pierced his Blood Qi Armor, and struck toward the back of his head.

Zhang Tie survived the Formation Spirit’s black cone and won the qualification to ascend, then forced the black-robed man who had attacked him to hand over the secret technique. Back in the Ascension Pavilion, Zhang Tie studied the Demon Yuan Cone and tested it against his azure lightning net.

• The black cone struck Zhang Tie’s head but shattered against his powerful body, and the Formation Spirit declared him the winner with three days to arrange his ascension.
• Zhang Tie ordered the black-robed young man who had launched the sneak attack to stay and used his pressure to make the others leave.
• The black-robed man apologized and gave Zhang Tie a jade slip containing his technique; Zhang Tie checked it and let him go.
• Zhang Tie returned to the Ascension Pavilion and studied the Demon Yuan Cone, learning how it compressed Demon Yuan into a fast, nearly silent cone.
• Zhang Tie tested a thumb-sized black cone against an azure lightning net, which overwhelmed the cone and shattered it.

Zhang Tie prepared for the Spirit Realm, used the Ascension Platform to teleport, and arrived in a forest by crashing into a lake. The chapter ended as nearby armored cultivators approached the impact site.

• Zhang Tie admired the concealed power of his Gluttonous Nascent Soul clone’s Demonic Nascent Cone.
• Zhang Tie exchanged his unused resources for Spirit Stones and left Little Turtle 200,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones to cultivate with.
• Zhang Tie stood on the Ascension Platform, and the Formation Spirit activated the teleportation.
• Zhang Tie vanished in a pillar of light and emerged from a spatial rift above a forest lake.
• Zhang Tie’s arrival blasted the lake into a giant crater and drew several armored cultivators toward the site.

Zhang Tie survived a spatial storm during his ascension and was rescued by a Night Clan patrol in the Spirit Realm. After waking, he learned his rescuers’ language and discovered he had arrived in Night Clan territory on Leiming Continent.

• Jinge found the badly wounded Zhang Tie in a crater and brought him back to the outpost on Captain Shen Ai’s orders.
• After three months, Zhang Tie awakened, and Jinge gave him a light that taught him the Night Clan’s language.
• Zhang Tie explained that a spatial storm had diverted his ascension and that he had survived by using the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel to enter a spatial rift.
• Shen Ai and Xuan Bei joined Jinge and Zhang Tie, and Jinge introduced the Night Clan squad members.
• Shen Ai confirmed that Zhang Tie was in the Spirit Realm, in Night Clan territory on Leiming Continent, where the squad was patrolling the Dark Forest.

After confirming that he had reached the Spirit Realm, Zhang Tie heard Shen Ai invite him to join the powerful Night Clan and began weighing the safety and opportunities it offered. He chose to recuperate there while repairing his injuries and damaged magical treasure.

• Zhang Tie confirmed that he had entered the Spirit Realm and told Shen Ai that healing his severe injuries was his immediate priority.
• Shen Ai suggested that Zhang Tie remain with the Night Clan as an outer sect elder, noting that returning to human territory on the Fengyuan Continent could take a thousand years.
• Shen Ai explained that the Night Clan had more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators, then left the stone house with Xuan Bei and Jinge.
• Zhang Tie found that his physical body and Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel had been badly damaged, while his sorcery had failed in the void and his perception of heavenly laws had weakened in the Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Tie decided to cultivate under the Night Clan’s protection, seek spirit stones to repair his treasure, and learn more about the Spirit Realm before heading toward the Fengyuan Continent.

After completing the patrol, Zhang Tie returned with Shen Ai's squad to Yuyang City, the immense capital of the Night Clan. He learned that Zhen Kui had died during the mission and began to take in the scale and structure of the city.

• Jinge told Zhang Tie that the patrol was over and that the squad would return the next morning.
• Zhang Tie considered using the Golden Boulder or the Indestructible Pearl to repair his void apertures, but decided both options were too dangerous.
• Zhang Tie met Shen Ai's squad at the Teleportation Hall, where Jinge told him that Zhen Kui had died in battle and only four members remained.
• Shen Ai led the squad through the teleportation arrays back to Qigong City and then to Yuyang City.
• Zhang Tie explored Yuyang City with his Divine Sense and saw that it stretched for hundreds of millions of li, with districts arranged in rising rings.

Zhang Tie learned from Shen Ai how the Night Clan’s divine bloodline determined its members’ talents and cultivation, then arrived at his lodging before an assessment to join the Guardian Army. Shen Ai gave him a jade slip describing possible positions as Zhang Tie prepared to inspect it.

• Zhang Tie marveled at the Night Clan’s spirit beast carriages and asked Shen Ai about the clan’s resemblance to humans and its cultivation.
• Shen Ai explained that the Night Clan received bloodline power through the Night Roaming God, whose divine light enabled members to conceive after three hundred and sixty-five days.
• Shen Ai said only Nascent Soul-stage members could conceive and described how a newborn’s number of arms indicated its potential cultivation realm.
• Shen Ai revealed two additional black, scaled arms and explained that Night Clan members received suitable cultivation methods from birth and possessed powerful bodies.
• The carriage stopped at Zhang Tie’s lodging, where Shen Ai said he would bring Zhang Tie for the clan’s assessment the next morning and handed him a jade slip about available positions.

Zhang Tie studied the Night Clan assessment requirements and chose to take the formation master duty assessment, hoping to advance beyond his tier-four level. The next morning, he arrived at the Assessment Hall and began registering for the assessment.

• Zhang Tie read the assessment jade slip and learned that the Night Clan would test both cultivation strength and suitability for a chosen duty.
• Zhang Tie decided to take the formation master assessment and reviewed the array formations he had encountered to prepare.
• Shen Ai met Zhang Tie at the pavilion, and they traveled together to the Assessment Hall.
• Zhang Tie entered the hall, noticed its rankings and registration counter, and asked how to register.
• An older-looking woman at the counter asked Zhang Tie his name.

Zhang Tie joined the Night Clan assessment and learned how its members sensed bloodline auras. The assessment began with a test of attack strength, and Zhang Tie was called up after Hui Yan received a late Nascent Soul rating.

• Zhang Tie registered for the assessment, received a jade token, and entered the rear courtyard.
• A high-nosed youth explained that Night Clan members sensed family ties through an innate bloodline talent that Zhang Tie, as a human, lacked.
• An elderly red-haired examiner announced that candidates would attack the testing stele with their strongest attacks.
• Hui Yan struck the stele with a firebird, and the examiner rated his attack as late Nascent Soul strength.
• The examiner called Zhang Tie next, startling him from his thoughts about Hui Yan's attack.